Hi Laura.
As a fellow doctor who fan I completely agree, more space themed games that
involved more than just shooting would be good.
Lords of the Galaxy from Vip gameszone comes close, and it does have rather
nice sounds, but there the waaaaaay imbalancee of the exchange coins option
and how useful markit planets are as compared to everything else basically
made the main theme of the game completely irrelivant.
I'm always amazed vipgameszone never actually released an update of the game
to fix such things, since usually those are what get solved in the first
public version, and with the nice atmosphere and sounds of the game it's a
major shame they didn't put more work in.
Terraformers does at least involve exploring an alien planet and is rather
adventure/puzzle than action, though it's a shame it's so short.
There are a couple of stratogy games like galaxy ranger and startrek final
conflict and trek 2000, but these are more about beating your enemies than
actually exploring space and encountering new stuff, (another reason I'd
love to see tom work on a more single ship startrek game).
Smugglers is likely the best in a single program, particularly smugglers 5,
since though the theme is war and trade and the games are very much economic
and battle stratogy, there is at least a rather large galaxy and you can
encounter many different enemies and land on many worlds, especially in
Smugglers 5 with it's gamebook adventures on every single planet and random
battle encounters.
Actually thinking about it, smugglers 5 might foot the bill very well
provided you can use your screen readers' virtual curser to interact with
the interface (it's well worth the time).
Apart from that, The best you will get is turning to text games and muds.
While there are various muds like Miriani and Star conquest, they are pretty
intense about player killing, meaning that if your primarily interested in
exploring the galaxy, seaking out new life and new civilizations etc etc,
not! interacting with (much less blowing up), other players they don't help
too much.
The same is true of most brouser space games, particularly since most take
the trade and war thing a bit too seriously rather than the exploring (I
wonder why that is, since to me that's much! more the interest of space
travel).
By far the best sace game is core exiles, which doesn't have! player
competing and does! let you explore planets and derelict spacecraft, though
that's of course brouser only and multiplayer, although it's multiplayer
trade and cooperation rather than multiplayer slaughter each other
mercilessly which all the other space games are.
Hth.
Beware the Grue!
DArk.
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